INTERVIEW-Tennis-Li relishing last Olympic chance

PARIS, June 2 (Reuters) - Having missed out on an Olympicmedal on home soil four years ago, Li Na is looking forward toone more try, although she knows the atmosphere will bedifferent from Beijing.

"I'm really looking forward to London especially becauseit's my last chance to play in the Olympics," the 30-year-oldFrench Open champion told Reuters after beating AmericanChristina McHale in the third round at Roland Garros onSaturday.

"The next ones will be in four years so you never know. Ihad a good experience in Beijing, I wish I can do better thistime."

With the Olympic tournament being held at Wimbledon, morethan an hour's drive across the capital from the East Londonathletes' village, Li will be staying in a hotel.

"We're not staying in the Olympic village because it is toofar. So we will be staying in a hotel with the other Chineseplayers," she said.

"In Beijing we could more feel that it was the Olympicsbecause there was a lot of support for the Chinese players. AndI was staying in the Olympic village, which was nice and just 15minutes away from the courts."

The Chinese champion, who lost to Russian Vera Zvonareva inthe bronze-medal match in Beijing, will be playing in her thirdOlympics after also taking part in the Sydney Games 12 yearsago.

Last year, she failed to shine on the grass courts at theAll England Club, losing in three sets in the second round toGerman Sabrine Lisicki, but said she was not worried that thesurface would spoil her Olympic hopes.

"I'm not doing that bad on grass courts so I am confident inmy chances," Li said.

"I don't think I played a bad match against Lisicki, we bothplayed a great match. I'm not worried at all by my level ongrass."

Li, who reached the quarter-finals at Wimbledon twice andwon the Edgbaston Classic in 2010, will skip the Birminghamtournament this year.

"After Roland Garros, I'm going straight away to Wimbledon.If I had not reached the second week here, I would have askedfor a wildcard for Birmingham," she said.

The Olympic tournament will start on July 28, three weeksafter the Wimbledon women's final, and Li believes the Gameswill feel different to the grand-slam event.

"Of course it's different from Wimbledon because duringWimbledon it's all about tennis. During the Olympics, there willbe other events in other sports going on," she said.